Quick Reflection on the Exhibition For the exhibition I took over the organisational reigns with Georgia. It was our job to make sure every group was organised and up to date with their particular tasks, and it was a credit to the entire class that our jobs were so easy, especially in the busiest time of the semester. Georgia and I did a little bit of deliberation about what times we thought each group should come to set up and thankfully Robbie correctly edited my running order draught, which in retrospect was quite confusing. On the day I was really … Continue reading Exhibition Post

Thoughts from the class’ presentations The presentations on both Tuesday and Thursday were all incredibly impressive and the innovation and original ideas presented by all my class mates both inspired and scared me. Jack and Thomas – Shopping Centres This particular presentation impressed me due to their research and innovation. The exploration of movement was really impressive and despite going in different directions in terms their areas of study they both highlighted the different aspects of movement with such impressive innovation. Indri, Isobel and Nicole – Online This presentation which looked into the scary aspects of online isolation was another … Continue reading Presentation Thoughts

After entering Ikea for nearly the 10th time I felt like I had finally had enough, I had seen all I could see and my time there started to feel like I was lost it in a  never ending maze filled with falsities. Our investigations felt like more like goose chases, where instead of trying to explore the place, we solely searched to make connection that weren’t there. I was starting to hate Ikea. It was until finding this peer reviewed poem that our passion for this project was reignited and we started truly exploring the space. Kate Peper’s poem … Continue reading Kate Peper’s Ikea

In our second phase of our spacial exploration of Ikea, Tess and I set out to expand on an earlier observation we made, likening the ‘Ikea effect’ to the ‘religious effect’. Despite facing a number of both directional and thematic challenges in the making of ‘Appropriated Comfort’ I believe we were ultimately successful in our final exploration of the site. Our initial idea for Appropriated Comfort was to explore religious iconography that could be found in Ikea, but after a couple of visits to Ikea both Tess and I quickly realised how limiting this approach was to truly exploring the space. Following this realisation we … Continue reading Appropriated Comfort – Reflection

Throughout both our projects involving IKEA, Tess and I wanted to explore Ikea’s writing patterns in more detail as we both strongly believed that it greatly added to the ‘Ikea effect’. With reference to the short descriptions of their ‘home ideas’, I found that Ikea’s style of writing read less about the room they are describing but more as a blank statement, an idea which immediately once again related Ikea to religion. I proposed the idea to Tess that I could place any of Ikea’s descriptive blurbs next to any ikea product and it would invoke the same emotion. As … Continue reading Blind Connection

In the ‘non-academic’ section of our research for our final outcome I kept on coming across a common title in the articles I was reading, a title that quickly changed the direction of our outcome. “What can the church learn from IKEA?” Despite the question that appeared in the title of 5 seperate catholic online publications not actually highlighting any religious techniques adopted by Ikea, it gave us a new found understanding of how the globalised furniture store was perceived as a ‘sacred place’ by people who identified as religious. Whilst cross-referencing the five articles, I found a number of … Continue reading What the church could learn from IKEA